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December 17, 2009By Guest Contributor By Sridala Swami IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY devoured every one of the three books in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, you have at least heard of it: the story of the girl with the dragon tattoo who plays with fire or kicks the hornet’s nest. She is Lisbeth Salander, abused child, accused adult and unlikely crusader along [...] Tags: shopian CBI report, shopian rape case, shopian truth, steig larsson | Category: Books, Desipundit, Institutions, Justice, Law, Our Bodies, Rape, Violence Against women, Women's Lives |
November 16, 2009By Guest Contributor By Sanyukta Saha Tags: Ajmer sex scandal, Anuradha Marwah, Dirty Picture | Category: Books, Desipundit, Prostitution, Society, Women's Lives |
October 05, 2009By Dilnavaz Bamboat LATELY, WHILE CHANNEL SURFING, I came across two advertisements, prominently aired in prime time slots that went something like this: Category: Books, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Gender, Identity and Destination, Media, Motherhood, Our Bodies, Popular Culture, Society, Women's Lives |
June 30, 2009By Oishik Sircar ON A RECENT VISIT to a Ivy League university in the US with scholars from across the Global South, we came across something strange. A book on feminism from its library had a bizarre tag pasted on it. The tag was brought to our notice by Elizabeth Weed, one of the editors of the acclaimed [...] Tags: chandra mohanty, elizabeth weed, feminism, feminism without borders, US university, women's studies | Category: Books, Culture, Desipundit, Identity and Destination, Institutions, Uncategorized |
June 12, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan ONE OF INDIA’S most beloved writers, Kamala Das, passed away after a long illness on the morning of May 31 2009. A poet and memoirist, she died at the age of 75, after a long and conflicted career. Tags: author, controversy, Kamala Das, literature, obituary, poet, Poetry, sexuality, video, writer, writing | Category: Books, Celebrating Women, Poetry, Women's Lives |
April 05, 2009By Aparna Singh WHERE EVERY FAMILY wants a hundred sons, but not even one daughter, where infant girls are killed using many ingenious methods, or even simpler, not allowed to be born, in such a land, what is the future of womankind? Tags: declining sex ratio, escape, female foeticide, female infanticide, gender skew, manjula padmanabhan | Category: Books, Desipundit |
March 09, 2009By Sharanya Manivannan Sleep wherever is most convenient for you. Tags: frida kahlo, inspiration, poems, Poetry, role models, sharanya manivannan, witchcraft | Category: Art, Books, Poetry, Women's Lives |
February 20, 2009By Aparna Singh THE HADEES he had read yesterday talked about how it was Shaitan who always tried to corrupt us. If we escaped his attempts, we would surely go to Heaven. In Heaven, rivers of milk and honey flow, thousands of Houri women serve the men and make them happy. As she remembered this, she wondered, if [...] Tags: Indian society and women, irandaam jaamangalin kadai, women and literature | Category: Art, Books, Celebrating Women, Desipundit, Exploitation, Marriage, Women's Lives |
October 08, 2008By Guest Contributor By Shilpa Phadke Mistaking one work of fiction to represent all women in a country is rather blinkered and when it’s a country of the diversity and complexity of India, it borders on the ridiculous. Compounding this by attempting to pontificate on a subject about which you clearly know nothing and circulating this in an international [...] Tags: Indian feminism, International Herald Tribune, You Are Here | Category: Books, Identity and Destination, Media |
August 18, 2008By Meena Kandasamy DR RUTH VANITA (b.1955), is a renowned academic and author specializing in lesbian and gay studies. Some of her acclaimed books include Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (2002), Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (2005), and Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and [...] Tags: bollywood, cinema, feminism, homosexuality, India, Left, lesbianism, LGBT, pride parades, queer rights, same-sex love, suicides, transgenders, women's movement | Category: Books, Culture, Morality, Sex and Sexuality, Society |
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